M1 southbound near j8, United Kingdom
Bright light appeared. We thought it was an aeroplane but because it was so bright and moved so fast we knew it couldn’t be.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-29
- Where
- M1 southbound near j8, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-m1-southbound-near-j8-2018-3b8b12
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- M1 southbound near j8, United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from United Kingdom in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.